Basque Pelota World Cup

The Basque Pelota World Cup (not to be confused with the Basque Pelota World Championship) is a set of four quadrennial tournaments organized by the International Federation of Basque Pelota on each of the disciplines of Basque Pelota: Trinquete, Fronton 30m, Fronton 36m and Fronton 54m. The FIPV organizes this tournaments on the years where the World Championships is not played.[1]

Basque Pelota World Cup
Tournament information
SportBasque Pelota
Established1995
Number of
tournaments
18
Administrator(s)FIPV
Current champion
 France (7th title)

History

The first World Cup tournament was played in 1995, only for men, in the discipline of Fronton 36m, with the modalities of Hand pelota (individual and pairs), Paleta cuero and Pala corta. The second tournament was played in 1997 in the discipline of Trinquete, including modalities of Hand pelota (men's individual and pairs), Xare, Paleta cuero and Paleta goma (men and women). The third tournament was played in 1998 in the discipline of Fronton 30m, including modalities of Frontenis (men and women) and Paleta goma (men). In 2001, the first Fronton 54m World Cup was introduced, with the modality of Cesta Punta. In 2017, FIPV organized the first World Cup of a new discipline called Frontball, though this was not included as part of the 2018 World Championships [1]

Editions

Fronton 36m World Cup
Year Host City and Country Best Performing Nations
1995 Pamplona, Spain  Spain  Cuba  France
1999 Almería, Spain  Spain  Cuba  France
2003 Brive, France  Spain  France  Argentina
2007 Barcelona, Spain  Spain  France  Argentina
2011 Brive, France Canceled
2017 Anglet, France  France  Spain  Mexico

Trinquete World Cup
Year Host City and Country Best Performing Nations
1997 Bayonne, France  France  Argentina  Mexico
2000 Bayonne, France  Argentina
 Spain		  France
2004 Bayonne, France  France  Cuba
 Mexico
2008 Havana, Cuba  France  Spain  Mexico
2012 Pamplona, Spain  France  Mexico  Argentina
2015 Guadalajara - Tepic, Mexico  Argentina  Spain  France
2019 Oloron-Sainte-Marie - Pau, France  France  Mexico  Spain

Fronton 30m World Cup
Year Host City and Country Best Performing Nations
1998 Valencia, Spain  Mexico  Argentina  Spain
2001 Palencia, Spain  Mexico  Argentina
 France
2005 Elche, Spain  Mexico  Spain  Argentina
2009 Tenerife, Spain  Spain  Mexico  Argentina
2016 Santiago, Chile  Mexico  France  Argentina
2021 Valencia, Spain  Spain  Mexico  Argentina

Fronton 54m World Cup
Year Host City and Country Best Performing Nations
2001 Havana, Cuba  France  Cuba  Spain
2005 Acapulco, Mexico  France  Spain  Mexico
2009 Palencia, Spain  France  Mexico  Spain
2013 Mexico, Mexico  Spain  Mexico  France
2017 Biarritz, France  France  Spain A  Spain B
2021 Zinacantepec, Mexico  Spain B  Spain A  France A

Frontball World Cup
Year Host City and Country Best Performing Nations
2017 Tepito, Mexico  France  Spain  Mexico

See also

Basque Pelota World Championships

References
  1. FIPV (December 2021). "Historico de resultados y clasificaciones" (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 December 2021.
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